Sabine example essay topic
And handsome Dan would never want to give up such a glamorous life to stay in Moose River Junction and care for his aging, mentally retarded uncle Nagy, per his mother Beatrice's wish. Even though Beatrice, imperious and theatrical to a fault, insisted in her will that Nagy never be institutionalized and instead be permitted to take tickets and sweep up at the Palace Theatre (her dead husband's pet project and final legacy). Sabine intuitively senses Dan's dark secret, but not its exact details. Yet Dan, given to solitary brooding, reveals all to the reader in interior monologues: he holds himself responsible for the accidental fire that killed his feuding parents when he was only six.
He and Nagy were playing with a lighter, and his grandmother Beatrice always told Dan that the fire was his fault, not Nagy's. Hmm... so that's why Sabine seems to smell smoke in his presence but she doesn't understand why. Gee, where does this strange knack for reading minds come from? The supposedly psychic young woman can't figure it out, but mother Ruby is waiting in the wings with a grim secret of her own: Sabine is the child of an alcoholic gypsy, who raped Ruby when she was only fifteen. Hence the gift - or is it a curse? -- of second sight. Then a wealthy local couple ask her to divine the source of troublesome happenings at their renovated farmhouse: could it be an unquiet ghost from three centuries ago?
Yes, indeed. The past casts long, dismal shadows upon the future of all who dwell in Moose River and only Sabine can set things right. Morbid, rather depressing romance from the author of CAMEO LAKE, 2001, and other tales of heartbreak..